Expériences de Pays en Matière d’Open Data

Jeff Kaplan - Senior Consultant, ICT UnitEmail: jeff@openesolutions.com Twitter: @jeffkaplan88

Tunis, Tunisia Mardi 03 avril 2012

Connect people, connect data, connect ideas

The Value of Open Data

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= US$1 billion

What Does Open Data Mean?

1 Primary data

2 Accessible (Portal website, mobile)

3 Machine processable

4 Non discriminatory

5 Free for reuse (commerical / non-commercial)

Open government data =

Non-personal data produced or commissioned by public sector that is made open

6 Open license

Building an Open Data Ecosystem

> 30 counties and 300 governments have open data initiatives ... And counting!

Open Data Around the World

•1st in sub-Saharan Africa• 22nd in the world

• 16th national Open Data portal• 1st in Eastern Europe / CIS

Kenya’s Open Data Portal

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Portal anchored with key, high-value datasets -- full Census

Portal launched with apps and APIs available from the beginning

Even before launch, started working closely with local developer community.

Almost 400 datasets by end of 2011.

Over 100 requests for datasets submitted via the portal.

Major investment in Phase 2 of its Open Data Initiative (over US$6 million)

Highlights

Portal anchored with key, high-value data sets: public expenditures database (BOOST) + data bank of National Bureau of Statistics

Sustainable pipeline of agency data sets driven by Open Data Directive

Over 20,000 downloads to date

18 public agencies have uploaded data onto data.gov.md

Recent investments in co-creation & apps development starting to pay off (CheckMySchool)

Highlights

Visible, high-level political support matters. Moldova’s Prime Minister championed Open Data and e-Transformation for over 1 year.

Time invested in socializing open data created real ownership by MD agencies

Don’t waste time fighting resistence; find first mover agencies and move forward with them on open data

Leverage early portal success into whole-of-government Open Data Directive

Need continuous activities to sustain momentum for open data after portal is launched -- contests, hackathons, high-profile release of important datasets

Moldova: Successes & Work in Progress

Promote reuse by targeting most valuable data sets

More data, more data, more data

APIs are needed to make data sets more usable for developers

Building Communities of Interest and Community of Practice around data

Greater investment in reuse & co-creation (“Field of Dreams” does not work)

Top political support from President + a political champion able to navigate the politics and technology to win support across government.

Took advantage of World Bank’s available, rich data on Kenya.

Robust, world-class platform. Kenya uses Socrata for data curation and visualizations.

Launched with APIs and visualizations for key data sets, and heavily encouraged application development even before portal launched.

Kenya: Successes & Work in Progress

Build capacity of data managers to handle acquisition, curation, quality control.

More data from more agencies

Better job showing development benefits of open data to top leadership

Invest in co-creation: connect user communities (academia, non-profits / development workers, private sector, media) with developers and private sector through Hackerthons, competitions, Data Journalism trainings.

Hiring dedicated Open Data team within ICT Board

Systematic Approach to Open Data in Moldova

AprilDec 10 - Mar 11 May June July Aug. Sept.

300downloads

187

14

15,000

17

213

19,500

3,300

92115

4,000

Socializing open data among MD agencies;

pre-launch preparations

Sept 26Chisinau adopts

alerte.md

April 29Open Data Directive

July 15-16

May 25BOOST database

Released

Sept 20

April 15Apps Contest launches

67 datasets

5 agencies

April 15

19

243

20,400

A Comprehensive Open Data Program

• Data.gov.md 2.0• Apps / e-services• Crowdsourced data

• Data.gov.md 2.0• Challengs/contests• Agency OGP Plans• Agency pilot projects• Local gov data

• Apps Innovation Fund• Challenges• Apps store - data.gov.md• Hackathons, Techcamps, etc• Visualizations/apps partnerships

Citizen Engagement

OpenData

Co-Creation &Innovation

CoreComponents

Infrastructure Policies Standards Data sets Technology (Cloud +)

Change Management Institutional Capacity

Open Data Program: Components

Moldova Open Data Program

Data.gov.mdCo-Creation

Activities

Open DataDashboardsOpen Data

LicenseOGD

ManualCapacityBuilding

Open Data Program: Components

Kenya Open Data ProgramKenya Open Data Program

Co-CreationActivities

Policy/LegalFramework

CapacityBuilding

Code4KenyaCode4Africa

Apps Innovation

FundData.gov.md

Small developer community?

Enables Gov to really partner with local developer community

Few IT professionals within gov? Real ROI from encouraging others to use your data to build services/apps. And they will do it faster, cheaper, more innovatively.

Hard to convince entire gov to open data? Identify first movers ... And move forward with them. Others will catch up (by mandate or pressure).

Little budget resources? Target partnerships with others willing to contribute with code, promotion, even funding.

Take advantage of your “disadvantages”Take advantage of your “disadvantages”

ICT and developer talent pool is outside government

Code4America model and incentives for co-creation

Other countries more advanced in open data

Learn their lessons ... steal their ideas and (open source) code

Other countries have large pool of developers and open data practitioners

Connect and enlist their help. Lots of free help (or help paid by others) is out there.

Take Advantage of Other People’s AdvantagesTake Advantage of Other People’s Advantages

Common Lessons Learned

Government must invest in both data supply and data reuse

Turning data into apps and visualizations like maps is essential to unlock value for people

More data, more data, more data

More capacity building, more awareness raising, more partnerships

Apps that meet agency priorities = more sustainable apps / e-services

Hire dedicated Manager and team responsible for Open Data

Resources ($$) for a multi-year Open Data Program

Early attention to performance metrics (e.g., Open Data dashboards)